Republican operatives are privately furious with RNC Chairman Michael Steele for predicting on Monday night that the GOP will not take over the House of Representatives in 2010. One strategist called the comment "stupid," arguing that it will put the party in a bind when it comes to candidate recruitment and generally lower expectations […]

A Republican attempting bipartisanship and is censured by the GOP in his home state. Which party is refusing bipartisanship? By Seanna Adcox COLUMBIA, S.C. — Republican leaders in a South Carolina county known as a GOP stronghold have voted to censure U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham for working with Democrats on immigration and climate change. It’s […]

I sure hope the Obama machine is putting money in this election to ensure its voters show up. Blind sides are always the one that gets you. Rassachusetts: Why a Poll May be Terribly, Horribly Wrong — And Why Democrats Should be Worried Anyway OK, here’s that Rasmussen poll on the Massachusetts Senate special election. […]

Disgruntles with whose only interest in common is being disgruntle about no one quite knows. The movement is not sustainable. The Alamogordo Daily News reports that an estimated 350 people showed up at an rally organized by the Otero Tea Party Patriots and the recently formed Alamogordo Second Amendment Task Force. The protest has attracted […]

I personally went to two of these tea parties in the Houston area and must say while most of the people were embarrassingly uninformed and ill-informed, I was treated with great respect and I became fond of a lot of these folks. That said, I have seen one event in Houston with the hateful racial […]

If the Democrats do not use this to illustrate that the GOP is categorically opposed to anything that favors the average American over corporations, they deserve to  lose Congress. Senate Republicans are determined to prevent the creation of an independent Consumer Financial Protection Agency because they consider it as threatening as their current arch-nemesis regulator: […]

  Now that both the House and Senate have passed health care reform bills, all Democrats have to do is work out a compromise between the two versions. And it appears they’re not about to let the Republicans gum up the works again. According to a pair of senior Capitol Hill staffers, one from each […]

Some sense from the other side. THERE IS, it seems evident, more than enough blame to go around in the botched handling of the botched Christmas bombing. Not for some Republicans. With former vice president Richard B. Cheney in the lead, they have embarked on an ugly course to use the incident to inflict maximum […]

Is Hume presumptuous or what? Fox News’ Brit Hume gave Tiger Woods some personal advice Sunday morning, telling the scandal-plagued (and Buddhist) golfer to ‘turn to Christianity’ to make a full recovery. On "Fox News Sunday," Hume — the former leader of Fox News’ political reporting and host of "Special Report" who now serves as […]